I gave Gaspar Noé the benefit of the doubt with “Irreversible,” but now I am starting to think the man simply has noé talent. This is a film of pretentious crap — for a while I really thought it was supposed to be a comedy, then I realized it was serious. The premise is like “Taxi Driver,” but the result is “Taxi Driver” filtered through incompetence.
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Jordan Hoffman is a New York-based writer and film critic working for The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Thrillist, Times of Israel, NY Daily News and elsewhere.
He is the host of ENGAGE: The Official Star Trek Podcast, a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and challenges you to a game of backgammon.
